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Proposed new VOSA checkpoint A14 Suffolk.
oldwoodcutter replied to Andy Collins's topic in General chat
We have one across the border here at Bexwell, with vosa sitting at nearby roundabouts on the A10, which most loaded local transit tipper owners steer well clear of. Funny how when they're sat up waiting they always look so mean and grumpy. -
Had a morning tidying up the workshop and a strange thing has happened, i noticed that April has been removed from the stihl calander,we have March then May, i'm sure it was there earlier in the week. I wonder which one of the little tinkers has taken it.
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I like that Mr Treebus.
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I think this thread has had its chips.
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Good work as usual Reg, thanks for posting.
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Even Mrs oldwoodcutter, a woman not noted for busting a gut, laughed when I read that out. Excellent.
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The worst offender is postman pat/Patricia, they will walk through hell, as if in a trance, to deliver those letters into the front door. I have seldom seen any one more determined to ignore all signage,machinery, or help.
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Sunday Market , possibly knocked off stuff .
oldwoodcutter replied to Lillywhite Timber's topic in General chat
Made the mistake of sharing my experience dealing with a client who needed help in his home. A few keyboard warriors told me I should have responded differently. All chips out of the saw now. -
Sunday Market , possibly knocked off stuff .
oldwoodcutter replied to Lillywhite Timber's topic in General chat
Yes, it was my turn to be keelhauled last week. -
Nope,front battery does locking and lights and powers relay which connects back battery. This back battery starts it via power from the front one through connection points by the seat.
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The old cutters of years ago would seldom tackle a big ash in strong winds,especially at this time of year,and if there were houses or property close.They would leave it for another day after the wind dropped. I happened to be in some forestry shelter belts earlier in the year, where final thinnings of beech were being hand cut by some young fellows. Some of the leaners and forked ones were quite large and i saw one of those barber chair. He finished it off, then went and sat on a trunk and smoked a cigarette for a few minutes, contemplating mortality when i went over and spoke with him.
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As Shane said, even with some charge in them you can be in trouble. The mk6 and 7 tranny's twin batteries have to both be in tip top condition for starting and running correctly.
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Ms200t. Dolmar 5045 460 Spudded to the max. 660
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Or rigging everything down but lifting the chogs off like a challenge in britains strongest man,and throwing them down to make holes that could be mistaken for the start of the channel tunnel.
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When working in domestic gardens, doing whatever you're up to, it's always the 'finish' that your work is judged on. Leave hedge clippings everywhere, or twigs all over the lawn, or stones and clods on the grass after stumping, and you'll seldom get asked back. Leave it clean and tidy for them to look at long after you've gone, and they may just invite you back to take some more money off them next year.
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Ah, that explains the unusual smell coming from your trousers I noticed on Friday Stumpy. 🙂
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Worst Environment Secretary ever?
oldwoodcutter replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
LT - conceit and arrogance personified. -
I dare not give some of mine a 7 day cooling off period as the job would have been done in the meantime by someone else for £10 less by the time I turned up to do it, handshake or not.
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That's a good one Muttley, the impudence of some people is astounding. Cheeky git.
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Too rough to work here as well. Went down the gravel pit for a couple of loads of 14mm to freshen up my house yard, as Mrs old woodcutter complaining of getting muddy shoes when around her rotary line and her car parking area. Happy days
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Steer clear of pricing anything up 'dayrate' because after mid afternoon the customer will be watching you like a hawk, and if you go much afore 5 he will be knocking your day rate down, 'as you didn't work all day'.
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Hey Stumpy, we're good to go at 8 Monday morning 🙂
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Before the days of h&s a farmer asked me to help him out by spraying up in his corn drier for saw toothed grain weevels. I remember using his old knapsack device for a couple of days,no mask, rats everywhere, i spent the next week at home either on the toilet or running to it,got so debilitated had to go to the docs in the end. Worse was just after i left school got a saturday job at local butchers,i worked in an old poorly lit shed out the back cleaning the weeks dirty meat bins and trays using cold water and soda chrystals that took the skin off your hands.The shed also housed several used 45 gallon barrels that all the old bones and unsaleable smelly stuff went in. Meat fed rats about as long as your arm lived in the barrels, walked between my feet all day and even used to come onto my washing benches. Think i stuck it for about 4 saturdays before i had enough of that, especially when my girlfriend at the time told me i smelled of meat of a saturday night.
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When i went into my dealers last week he rather impressively showed me one he had chained to the shelf. It looks well built and is certainly light weight. He didnt talk me into buying it, but i did forget what i went in for in the first place.
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With the short days of winter, sat in front of my log burner drinking tea for days on end, reflecting on the small fortune i spend on advertising and the phone not ringing, i too lost my mojo in january, but with spring just around the corner,things are slowly beginning to move - ime getting my motley crew together again now for a couple of days each week, and getting a bit more of a spring in my step.
